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The girl instinctively swallowed the pill, and only then did the decay on her face show a slight improvement, halting its progression.
Her face was utterly disfigured!
The countenance of a once-delicate and pretty young girl had turned a shocking shade of red, grotesquely swollen. There were now two gaping holes on her chin and cheek, revealing white bone beneath.
Achir, shocked, shrank back and sought refuge behind Asi.
Several students from the Hong Estate Academy couldn’t contain their anger and launched into an angry tirade, “Why are you hiding?”
“If you hadn’t swung your sword and killed that saber-toothed fish earlier, none of this would have happened!”
“You blundering fool!”
“You’re a jinx!”
Achir herself felt deeply aggrieved. How could she have known that the saber-toothed fish held such vile toxins? That there would be a poison sack inside it capable of inflicting such harm on others before it met its demise?
Did they think she did it intentionally? It wasn’t her fault!
The girl, whose face was now in ruins, covered her disfigured visage and wept.
Observing this, Qiao Mu grew slightly exasperated and shouted, “Silence, all of you!”
She tossed a small bottle of medicine to the girl. “Apply this morning and night. Your face should heal within a month.”
Everyone stared at her in astonishment. Seeing that the stoic young woman remained largely impassive, their gazes turned even colder as they regarded the sobbing girl.
“Her eyes are really icy,” everyone thought.
The disfigured girl clutched the medicine bottle and, upon meeting the stoic girl’s gaze, was initially terrified by her coldness. She trembled timidly in fear but soon felt a warm current penetrate her heart.
Inexplicably, she found herself unconditionally trusting the young face before her, though it was marked by an aura of seriousness and detachment.
“T-thank you,” she mumbled, her voice soft as a whisper.
Following this incident, Achir refrained from speaking and sought refuge behind Asi and Ali.
The shipwrights lay prostrate on the ground, beseeching Holy Son Miyan, “Your Excellency, save us, save us.”
They were ordinary individuals. If they were bitten by these saber-toothed fish, they’d undoubtedly meet their demise.
Holy Son Miyan’s expression grew solemn. She turned to the stoic girl and inquired in a deep voice, “Do you possess any means to help us?”
For some reason, she had the conviction that this little girl, adorned in treasures, held the key to extricating everyone from this perilous situation.
The young girl raised her brows and gave him an indignant look. “Didn’t you folks bring this calamity upon yourselves? Now that you’re unable to manage it, you expect me to bail you out?”
Holy Son Miyan responded, “Are you misunderstanding something here?”
“We’re all in the same predicament now,” he argued. Was he insane to lure these creatures here, jeopardizing everyone, including himself?
“Hmph,” the stoic girl rolled her eyes at him. “You don’t know how to stir up trouble, but can’t others do it?”
The Holy Son’s gaze instinctively turned to the silent Holy Daughter Nie Yaoguang.
For some reason, this was his intuition. He felt that the little stoic was targeting the Holy Daughter.
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